Saturday, July 26, 2014

In the waning years of prohibition...

As Lee Fang’s article int The Nation (Guess Who’s Profiting from Pot
Prohibition?/July 21) describes, cannabis legalization poses a clear and
present danger to entrenched, last-century corporations ‘who’ grew up under assumption like they were special and cannabis would forever be contained as a competitive threat. Big
government seems no less stunned by the quickening pace of liberty, and by
their inability to control the message in the age of the internet.

To be sure, restoring the right of Americans to choose
something other than pills, butts and booze is going to hit those industries hard,
particularly because THC is proving to be a safe and effective drug for
treating pill and alcohol dependency. As tincture and oil, cannabis is quietly
working wonders across a wide range of ailments, including seizures, migraines,
Crohn’s, fibromyalgia, chemo relief, ADHD, PTSD, and even cancer.